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Repairs to the long-dry Sprain Ridge pool have been pushed back another year, after construction estimates came in higher than expected.

Westchester County, which owns Sprain Ridge, still plans to reopen a 100-by-30-foot recreational pool that goes as deep as 4-feet by July 2017. The main pool with a diving board will remain closed as the county goes back to the drawing board.

The county Board of Legislators agreed last year to spend $9.3 million to redo the pool on the Yonkers-Greenburgh border, built in the 1970s and closed since after the 2010 swim season. Two bids for construction came in at upwards of $13 million, leading the county to split the project in two.

By law, any capital project that costs more than $10 million needs approval by a public vote of residents. Doing so would not only delay the pool’s reopening, but face the possibility of being rejected. Instead, the county has opted to do two separate projects, and on Tuesday issued a new request for proposals just for the smaller pool, a bathhouse and splash deck.

The county is expecting bids in November. Ned McCormack, spokesman for County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican, said they expect a contractor to be chosen from the bids shortly after. McCormack said despite the change, Astorino remains committed to completing all the work at the pool.

“We had to break the project into parts, but the answer is 'yes,'” he said.

The larger pool will be fenced in and a second request for proposals will go out next year, McCormack said.

Talks of improving the pool began in 2006, but Astorino halted those plans when he came into office in 2010, citing financial considerations. He proposed a scaled-down plan in 2014, before lawmakers approved the latest plan in August 2015.

The cost of the project has gone up because of additional electrical work that is needed and changes to the sanitary code that mean work will be more expensive for the diving pool, Legislator Mary Jane Shimsky said.

Shimsky, a Hastings-on-Hudson Democrat, said the delays were unfortunate but came about because of the lag between the pool’s closing and a fully-realized plan from the administration.

“There’s not much you can do about it at this point because…if you decide to delay the start on something, you can’t make up all that time,” she said. “It’s impossible.”